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MADRID — Workers stumbled a month ago across a metal box filled with 200-year-old books, documents and mementos while digging beneath a Madrid statue of “Don Quixote” author Miguel de Cervantes. Now the Spanish capital wants to plant a new time capsule from today.
The new capsule will contain objects associated with present-day Madrid or with Cervantes, who penned his two-volume masterpiece in the early 17th century.
The tightly sealed lead box contained five copies of “Don Quixote de la Mancha” published in 1819, a newspaper from 1834 wrapped around a calendar, travel guides and a manuscript covered in cloth.
